Lost and Found by Nicole Williams

Jesse's family and friends are all portrayed so as to win the reader's heart. The book's main villains, including Rowan's mother, are all three-dimensional in their nastiness, not without motivation, even if it's rather horrible motivation.
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Synopsis

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

From New York Times & USATODAY Bestselling Author Nicole Williams, a story about a troubled girl, a good guy, and one summer that will forever change them both.

There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling.

After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.

Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.

Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.

When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.

*Recommended for mature readers due to moderate language and sexuality. *

The second book in the LOST & FOUND series: NEAR & FARThe third and final book in the LOST & FOUND series: FINDERS KEEPERS

Nicole Williams is the founder of Wildly Sophisticated Media Inc., a company designed to empower and support young women on their quest for success. Currently, her speaking series, Wildly Sophisticated LIVE, has reached thousands of young women across North America. By parlaying her own fast-track professional achievements into the Quest for Success workshops, a one-on-one career building practice, and the Drinks After Work networking events, Nicole has redefined the professional playing field for Wildly Sophisticated women everywhere.

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May 29 2013

Jesse's family and friends are all portrayed so as to win the reader's heart. The book's main villains, including Rowan's mother, are all three-dimensional in their nastiness, not without motivation, even if it's rather horrible motivation.